When I was recently skimming a number of articles about companies on the stock market that we were evaluating, I happened on one about the company that my husband works for. I knew that he had enough exposure to company management to be able to tell me if he agreed with the stock analyst’s conclusions. […]
How to Become Financially Independent: The Do It Yourself Approach
I suppose I was born with an active Do It Yourself (DIY) gene. Somehow the urge to innovate and do things for myself has always been a significant motivator for me. Being thus motivated, my habitual approach to things has been to decide if I am up to the task. Do I have the competencies […]
How to Get On the Path to Financial Freedom
In our culture we are presented with many prerogatives and choices (‘freedoms’, if you will). In this discussion I’d like to focus on the ‘financial freedom(s)’ subset of this. Unfortunately ‘freedom’ can be exercised to our severe disadvantage just as readily as to our advantage. We live very close to the consequences of this double-edged […]
Helpless Female Learns Interesting Tidbits About Writing a Legal Will and Power of Attorney Documents
I always knew everyone was “advised” to have a will. However, just thinking about it felt like stepping into a quagmire in the middle of a legal jungle. I would be sinking in the muck of trying to understand hidden government traps, while the only people offering me help spoke another language and I wasn’t […]
Why I am Skeptical of Predictions of a GMO Apocalypse
People give humans too much credit. Sure, we discover and invent great things. We can work hard to cultivate our environment in a number of ways. But that’s just it. To do so we have to work pretty hard. Once we stop working, even for a few days, our little patch of influence devolves to […]